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The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. Christ heals with more ease than any other; other Physicians apply pills, potions, bleeding, Christ cures with more facility, with a word; Christ made the Devil go out with a word speaking, Mark 9.25. So when the soul is spiritual possessed, Christ can with a word heal, nay, he can cure with a look. When Peter had fallen into a relapse, Christ looked on Peter, and he wept. Christs look melted Peter into repentance; it was an healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul, he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, Psal. 119.132. Look thou upon me and be merciful unto me.
6. Christ heals with more ease than any other; other Physitians apply pills, potions, bleeding, Christ cures with more facility, with a word; Christ made the Divel go out with a word speaking, Mark 9.25. So when the soul is spirituall possessed, Christ can with a word heal, nay, he can cure with a look. When Peter had fallen into a relapse, Christ looked on Peter, and he wept. Christs look melted Peter into repentance; it was an healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul, he can recover it. Therefore David prayes to have a look from God, Psal. 119.132. Look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me.
7. Christ is the most tender-hearted Physician. He hath ended his Passion, yet not his compassion. How doth he pity sick souls! He is not more full of skill than sympathy, Hos. 11.8. My heart is turned within me. Christ shows his compassion in that he doth proportion his physic to the strength of the Patient. Physic if it be too sharp for the constitution, endangers the life. ⟨p. 497⟩